San Joaquin Delta College gets thumbs-up from accreditation commission

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Jul 15, 2014 at 2:00 PM

San Joaquin Delta College remains in good standing after undergoing intense scrutiny from a peer-review accreditation commission.

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San Joaquin Delta College remains in good standing after undergoing intense scrutiny from a peer-review accreditation commission.

The finding is good news for anyone who earns a degree at Delta, because it allows the college to essentially keep its doors open and continue awarding those degrees.

Delta President Kathy Hart did acknowledge today that, based on a visit by the peer-review team earlier this spring, college officials had been concerned they might be placed on probation or warning -- an outcome that would have required staff to do additional work.

So the group's final conclusion came as a big relief.

"This is really huge," Hart said.

The final report by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges is, to be sure, a mixed bag.

It praises Delta for improving the success rates of lower-income minority students and for being fiscally prudent, among other commendations.

But it also says the college must improve its planning efforts and hire more administrators, and the group criticizes unnamed members of the Board of Trustees for "questionable unethical behavior," without offering specifics.

The report is scheduled to be discussed by trustees at a meeting tonight.

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